Improvement in instruments for parting ladies  hair



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH L. MEEK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 53,163, dated March 13,1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. MEEK, of 678 Washington Street, in thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulInstrument to Facilitate the Parting of Ladies7 Hair 5 and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partof this specification, in Which- Figure l is a perspective view of theinstrument. Fig. 2 is a view showing the manner in which the instrumentis applied to the head.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

The object of my invention is to enable a lady to part her own. hairstraightly or evenly without difliculty.

It consists of a yoke of such form as to extend across or over the crownot' the head and rest upon the ears, and having attached to it twoparallel guide-pieces of such form and so arranged that when the yoke isplaced over the crown the said guide-pieces project forward over the topof the head to the forehead. The space between the said guide-piecesbeing just wide enough for the passage ot' a comb and perfectly straightfrom back to front, the said pieces will guide a comb placed betweenthem in a perfectly straight line, and so enable the front parting ofthe hair to be made perfectly straight. The rear edge of the yoke alsoserves asa guide to the comb for the side partin gs.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will proceed todescribe it, having reference to the drawings.

A is the yoke, of metal or other suitable material, of suitable lengthand form to reach over the crown of the head from ear to ear,

and having its ends forked, as shown at a a, to rest upon the ears.

y B B are the two parallel guide-pieces, which extend in arched formfrom the center of the yoke A in a forward direction, for the purpose ofguiding the comb. rEhe space between `these guide-pieces is straight andof width sutlicient for the passage of the ends of the teeth of anordinary hair-dressing comb, and is open at the front ends oftheguide-pieces.

The guide-pieces B B may be made of separate pieces of metal andsoldered or otherwise secured to the yoke A, or the whole may be punchedfrom sheet brass or other metal and afterward formed up to the propercurvatures to tit the head, as desired.

The operation of my invention is simply as follows: The ladys hairhaving been combed out straight, the yoke A is placed over the crownofthe head and upon the ears. The comb is then placed in and drawn in aforward direction through the straight space Z1 between theguide-pieces, and is thereby made to part the hair straight andcentrally. The instrument is then taken off and the hair combed overstraight on the sides, as usual, after parting the front hair. Theinstrument is next placed on the head, as before, and the side partingsare made by drawing the comb along the rear edge of the yoke A.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as a new article ofmanufacture- An instrument to facilitate the parting of ladies7 hair,consisting of a yoke, A, and a guide, B B, substantially as hereindescribed.

JOSEPH L. MEEK.

Vitnesses:

JNO. A. Hicks, Jr. HENRY T. BROWN.

